It seems that everything turned into scams, aggressive self marketing and just click bait irrelevant content. I liked finance videos, but every creator sounds like “the world will end soon” or “my secret method to make 1 million per week day trading stocks/forex/crypto.”
Content aimed at culture (movies/series) also behave the same way, throwing a bit of politics into the mix. Always the same incendiary click bait title spewing a bunch of nonsense that has nothing the story, setting characters or other topics relevant to the piece.
Is there anything that can be saved on that platform? It has gotten so bad that I’m start to think that Tiktok and Twitter both have better content than YouTube. At least in those platforms you can find a random dude writing an essay in a series of 20 tweets on why an increase of mantis is related to the global surge of ballpoint pen prices.
You have to find your way past the 99% commercial, screaming crap and the toxic stuff that its algorithm recommends. Adblocking or premium is a must but even then the constant in-video ads have become a cancer. It’s sometimes unbearable and makes me unsubscribe.
YouTube is like a bowl of shit with a few gems at the bottom. You just have to dig to get there.
There are already a bunch of good recommendations here so I won’t repeat them but:
Recently I found HowardHandsTV, pop culture analysis, very funny and feels like an old school channel.
Also Common Sense Skeptic ripping apart Elon Musk and Andrew Tate lately has been entertaining.
I also fall asleep to Michael MJD and his weird and fun reviews/projects, I think it’s the voice that is soothing.